Habiby, Emile.
Summary: Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure; his life is lived in constant fear, yet he is never without hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABNaymark, Emilya
Summary: After a neighborhood summer block party ends in violence and the disappearance of two women, private investigator Laney Bird discovers that her close circle of friends have become suspects and her complicated and enigmatic teenage son is hiding something.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAYFerris, Emil
Summary: "In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MYEmill, Jumata
Summary: When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMIEmill, Jumata
Summary: Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMIJonasson, Jonas
Summary: It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Centenarian Allan Karlsson and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONRagnar Jonasson
Summary: "Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Th©đr Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors--continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGFerris, Emil
Summary: "Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MYJonasson, Jonas
Summary: Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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Summary: "Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavaik. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skaalar seems like a small price to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGSher, Emil
Summary: A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHESummary: "Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series finds the Targaryens ruling over the Seven Kingdoms -- and on the brink of civil war within their own house. Prior to the birth of a son, King Viserys sent shockwaves through the kingdom and declared his daughter, Rhaenyra, his heir. Once a healthy boy entered the picture, plans were afoot to make sure she would never sit on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HouseAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIEmley, Dianne.
Summary: While investigating the gang killing of a low-level informant, Pasadena detective Nan Vining stumbles upon clues to her own brutal assault two years earlier, as sometime-flame Jim Kissick searches for the vicious serial killer who had nearly taken Nan's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMLDaily, Lisa
Summary: "Alex has planned and executed her life with laser focus since she first met her future husband at the play-doh table on the first day of kindergarten. They have a terrific life, a gorgeous house on the bay, and fantastic careers they love. There's only one problem: Alex's husband Michael is gay, a fact he neglected to mention in the 23 years since they first met. Now, Alex's perfectly planned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIJohnson, Milly
Summary: Three sisters, all seven years apart, who are not close at all, must convene after their mum's death to arrange the funeral and pack everything up. Their mother has left the family home and most of the money to the youngest sister Annis, who she didn't get on with at all. As they pack everything up, the sisters become closer than they have ever been before as they begin to let each other into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JohnsonMiley, Mary
Summary: "Summer, 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore has been working for fraudulent spiritual medium Madame Carlotta for nearly a year - if 'work' you could call it. Investigating Carlotta's clients, and attending seances as her shill, keeps Maddie and her young son Tommy fed and clothed, and she's grown to love the kind, well-meaning spiritualist like family. Still, Maddie - estranged from her abusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILZebrowska, Emilia
Summary: "In this illustrated board book based on the beloved children's game, readers and listeners alike are prompted to locate the prepositions based on contextual clues"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Editions 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ZEBMonson, Ander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MonsonJonasson, Jonas
Summary: A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over. After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JONRagnar Jonasson
Summary: Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday--a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jonasson 2019Ragnar Jonasson
Summary: "Siglufjordur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors -- accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jonasson 2017Jean, Emiko
Summary: Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After. When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now, shes overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022